Expanding Knowledge of Peer-Based Mental Health Organisations: The Experience of Clubhouse

Abstract

The special Clubhouse issues of this Journal (7(1) and this current issue, 2013) feature articles that review the development of a potent social intervention to mitigate the impact of the exclusion and discrimination experienced by many people who suffer from severe and persistent mental ill health. In this short recapitulation, I comment on the key ingredients of the model— the fundamental underpinnings, the organisational elements and the need for further research.